The mother of all dystopian novels. The
ministries, doublethink, revolution, the party, Big Brother, spies, mice,
interrogations, Victory Gin – it’s all so terrifying. And yet, to me, it’s all
a bit much (probably that's because, for my Ph.D., I spent 3 years looking at the nature of totalitariansim). I wonder whether Orwell actually believed all this (or part of it)
would have happened.
I am glad I’ve read this book, but I can’t say
that I liked it and I actually don’t have any particularly insightful comment
to add other than: it’s all just a bit too much.
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